Today is the last day of @conservancy 's match challenge and we still have about $15k to raise. I'm going to make some posts NPR style today until we make progress against our goal! At this point, all amounts help move the bar and make getting to our goal attainable! I'm using #SFCdrive so folks can skip these posts if they want to!
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in reply to Karen Sandler • • •You can read about my own health situation that inspires me to be passionate about the software we rely on. As a "cyborg lawyer" I know that we need to have real control over the software we use, and that it's not a matter of *if* our software will fail, it's about what we'll be able to do when it does fail.
This importance of this work is long term, but critically important. I hope you will support it.
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/dec/19/a-note-from-karen-2023/
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A Note from Our Executive Director: 2023 and my personal quest for software freedom
Software Freedom ConservancyKaren Sandler
in reply to Karen Sandler • • •Getting shocked by my defibrillator unnecessarily while pregnant (once I had time to process it) really stands for the proposition that our technology may not be made for our situation, despite the best of intentions by manufacturers. Things change, companies go out of business. Having access to the complete and corresponding source code (and the scripts to control compilation and installation) is a basic part of integrity in our critical technology.
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in reply to Karen Sandler • • •And because our technology has much less of a chance of being made *for* everyone if it's not made *by* everyone, it's important to have initiatives that help folks that face challenges from all different backgrounds get started in contributing to this field.
You can see the incredible work that our Outreachy team did this year.
https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2024-01-11/outreachy-2023-in-review/
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Software Freedom ConservancyKaren Sandler
in reply to Karen Sandler • • •And, NPR style... donations are starting to come in! Please help us make our match goal today. If you are reading this, you are probably somewhat tech savvy and understand how important these issues are. We must do better with our technology infrastructure, and planning for an unknown future can only happen if we can modify our key software.
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Software Freedom ConservancyKaren Sandler
in reply to Karen Sandler • • •Fediverse! You've done an incredible job getting our number down to $12,233! Can we raise that today? I think we can!
We don't have tote bags or mugs, but we do have t-shirts for our Sustainers, and, most importantly, every donation is a step forward for #softwarefreedom! We are a lean organization - no development staff, just people who care so much about free software that work as hard as we can to make real incremental progress every day for this cause.
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Software Freedom ConservancyKaren Sandler
in reply to Karen Sandler • • •I'm most proud about @conservancy that we just keep doing concrete things to improve the state of software freedom. We do a lot of advocacy and philosophy, but *talk is, as they say, cheap. We don't necessarily do the best job of promoting our work because we're so focused on the *doing*, but every month it's more and more, from writing to government agencies, to supporting our member projects, to our law suit to supporting @outreachy internships.
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Software Freedom ConservancyKaren Sandler
in reply to Karen Sandler • • •Oh my gosh, people, we're now only have
$6,759 left to raise! Can you help? I think we can do this!
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Software Freedom ConservancyKaren Sandler
in reply to Karen Sandler • • •We may not have pictures of puppies or kittens in our fundraiser, but we do have a picture of the first #FOSSY baby!
Check out Elijah (and Oliver!) 's match donor interview:
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/jan/15/supporter-interview-with-elij-and-oliver/
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Supporter Interview with Elijah (and Oliver!) Voigt
Software Freedom ConservancyKaren Sandler
in reply to Karen Sandler • • •The magic number has come down to $5,883! Please help spread the word. While our deadline is AOE today, we don't have a ton of time left! That would be $11766 we could use on defending the GPL, advocating for copyleft, running internship programs and generally hustling all day every day for your software freedom and rights!
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Software Freedom ConservancyKaren Sandler
in reply to Karen Sandler • • •We now need about $4800 in donations to meet our match. Maybe some software freedom loving Australians can help? Or west coasters at the end of their day?
We're so close! Tell a friend! Buy a Sustainership as a gift! kick in just a few dollars more! Anyone have any other ideas how to promote?
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Software Freedom ConservancyKaren Sandler
in reply to Karen Sandler • • •Scratch that, the number we need to raise to meet our ambitious match challenge is now $2,215! Donate now and *you* could be the one to push us over the top!!!!
Let's bring this home, I'm so excited about all of the work we're going to do this year for software freedom!
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